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Goobi
Yogi in the seal (khechari mudra) position (recto), and yogi seated by his hut (verso), folio from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat).
This book consists of ten chapters explaining the philosophy of hatha yoga, with paintings showing twenty-one different positions (asanas). Written in Persian, the work was composed in Gujarat c. 1550 by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), a prominent Sufi, drawing from an earlier Arabic version (Pool of life, or Hawd al-hayat), of an original Sanskrit text (Amrita Kunda, now lost). This manuscript was produced in early seventeenth-century Mughal India: it is one of three yoga-related texts commissioned for prince Selim (the future Mughal emperor, Jahangir).
Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with two paintings (on recto and verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), unsigned, Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1604. This is one of twelve folios now detached from its codex (Chester Beatty In 16).
Yogi in the seal (khechari mudra) position (recto), and yogi seated by his hut (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)
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Indian collection
Persian (language)
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Approved Place 2018/Asia/South Asia/India/Uttar Pradesh/Allahabad
Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Nasta'liq script
1600-1604
1600
1604
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Paper (material)
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228 mm x 139 mm (height x width)
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Allahabad
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